500 researchers to dwell on engineering trends in smart cities

The Nikken-Sekkei Research Institute (NSRI) of Japan signed an MoU to share its ideas on how to make Indian cities 'smart' with IIT-Kharagpur. (Representative photo)AHMEDABAD: Gujarat's first three-day national level conference on emerging research trends in engineering will kick start from Monday at the Vishwakarma Government Engineering College (VGEC) in Chandkheda.

The event will see a number of research papers being presented by national level engineering institutions including the IITs'. Apart from them senior scientists from Isro, Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) will be part of the national level seminar. This year the event will see nearly 500 researchers from various engineering backgrounds present papers on emerging technologies for smart cities.

In the run up to the event, organizers of the National Conference on Emerging Research Trends in Engineering (NCERTE) received 257 research papers from across the country , out of which 162 papers will be presented at the event.